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Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

St. Peter School holds trivia bee

ASHTON — After a few-weeks’ delay due to this winter’s record snow and cold, St. Peter School in Ashton held its Catholic trivia bee on March 1, as part of the school’s belated Catholic Schools Week activities.

Students in grades 3K to five were divided up into their four spirit groups, each with their own saint and color: St. Clare — violet, St. Francis — green, St. Peter — red, and St. Paul — white.

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Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald Staff

St. Peter School holds trivia bee

ASHTON — After a few-weeks’ delay due to this winter’s record snow and cold, St. Peter School in Ashton held its Catholic trivia bee on March 1, as part of the school’s belated Catholic Schools Week activities.

Students in grades 3K to five were divided up into their four spirit groups, each with their own saint and color: St. Clare — violet, St. Francis — green, St. Peter — red, and St. Paul — white.

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Kevin Wondrash

A special invitation to all people with disabilities, shut-ins, the elderly, and their caregivers

PORTAGE — St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Parish, Portage, will be celebrating a Mass in remembrance of Blessed Margaret of Costello for the cognitive and physically disabled and their parents, caregivers, and guardians.

The celebration will be on Saturday, April 27, at the 4 p.m. Mass. People of all faiths are invited and welcome. There will be a delicious dinner to follow in the school cafeteria.

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Kevin Wondrash

Scholarship Shower supports St. Vincent de Paul youth program

MADISON — The Madison St. Vincent de Paul Youth Service Council (YSC) has developed a unique scholarship program — one that contributes $1,000 to further education or training for a graduating student eligible to receive free/reduced lunch. It also supports the student’s family via rent credit and grocery store gift cards.

“After participating in a poverty simulation, YSC members realized the importance of supporting the student’s family, too,” explained Gayle Westfahl, advisor of the group.

“Removing the student from the household to focus on school might mean the family does not have the student’s income to help with bills nor their assistance with caring for siblings or older relatives. If a student knows that their continuing study also supports the family a bit, he/she might be more inclined to pursue long-term educational goals.”

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Patrick Delaney, For the Catholic Herald

St. Ambrose Academy juniors and seniors attend march in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forty years ago, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., St. John Paul II affirmed the validity of absolute moral norms including prohibitions against sins such as perjury, adultery, and in this case, abortion.

Only six years after the intrinsically unjust Roe v. Wade decision was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, St. John Paul addressed not only the decriminalizing of abortion but implicitly warned against the cascading moral relativism it helps to engender.

He stated: “If a person’s right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother’s womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole of the moral order, which serves to ensure the inviolable goods of man.

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Kevin Wondrash

Society of St. Vincent de Paul holds 27th annual Recycle the Warmth blanket drive

MADISON — For good health, school or work success, and general well-being, the warmth and comfort of a good night’s sleep matters to everyone.

But not everyone in our community has a clean, warm blanket to call his or her own this winter, so the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Dane County is holding its 27th annual Recycle the Warmth blanket drive to collect thousands of donated new and gently used clean blankets and other bedding to give away to families or individuals living in low-income households.

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